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I don't use Intune, so this is only a guess, I could be totally wrong on the cause, but did you let your Push Notification Certificate expire? Has to be renewed annually or things will break and stop working as expected.

Office 365 works great on iPad. It has Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneDrive, Teams, OneNote. The Apple ID's can also be Azure/Entra linked too. * Wireless info - Ruckus , around 2100 iPads (and 450 Mac's) with AirPlay traffic from the teachers Mac Screens running over this too, holds very well. * Did you need to do any specific backend upgrades to support the transition? Just made sure the Wireless, Switches and Leased Line had sufficient bandwidth. * What devices are people using for their students? iPads , all day battery, instant on/open, easy management with a decent MDM. * Did anyone who's gone down this road use any external companies that have helped/are supporting the transition? No, all done in house. * Do you have any recommendations or warnings for implementing a 1 to 1 scheme? Just be clear why you are doing it, if Teachers don't use them it's pointless. It has made a huge difference in our school, most stuff is now done electronically, every teacher and subject use the OneNote Class NoteBooks, they love the fact they can mark work on their iPad (using the Apple Pencil) and saves them carrying boxes and boxes of heavy books for marking. Teams is heavily utilised and all core knowledge for subjects is kept on it. We were originally 1:1 2009 to 2014 with Windows based Netbooks, then moved to iPads in 2014. The iPad is much better suited to this task and iOS is less hassle than Windows.

JAMF do a setup and reset app, https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/jamf-setup-reset-configuration-guide/page/Overview.html . Idea being you take an iPad and choose a setup which then puts the correct apps on, then press reset when finished. But that might not do 100% what you are after or be over kill. If you have federated Apple ID's with Office 365 you could maybe use Shared iPad mode with that?

We get Staff to do Teams creation and deletion. We have 1:1 iPad deployment and use Teams extremely heavily with all subjects and lessons so our staff are very good at house keeping with them because of this. Makes me happy as its 1 less thing I need to manage.

2 friends are parents with kids at school, they removed WhatsApp 2 years ago, and refuse to use it because its a Facebook product. I also removed it and use Signal because its not owned by Facebook.

Sounds like you are trying to use a Managed Apple ID on the App Store to download Apple Configurator? If so you cannot. You have to use a non managed Apple ID, ie a personal one.

I would not join a MacBook to a domain unless its a fixed station in an IT Lab. Use a local user account and maybe NoMAD if you need AD communication for password change/shares.

I've recently ditched streaming and ripped all my CDs and gone back to local on my iPhone. On my Mac (M1, using Ventura) you have to import and organise your music on the Mac first in the Music application. Then you simply sync it to your iPhone by ticking which Albums/Playlists you want to sync after clicking the phone icon in the Music App.

Still got an old Acer laptop with Windows NT 4 on I use for the serial port and hyper terminal. Had to boot it earlier in the year to factory reset something.

Yep thats the one, you just make a bootable USB Installer to match the hardware you want to install the OS on, then once installed run the patcher again to just adjust a few settings like booting without the boot selector and its done, really straight forward. We have 100+ 2014 iMac's that won't go above Big Sur officially, but I've done Monterey, Ventura on them and likely do Sonoma early next year. I just keep a batch of USB sticks to do a row of iMacs in 1 hit then move onto the next. Will likely replace them with M3/M4 iMacs on 2 or 3 years since they will be 11/12 years old at that point.

Just use OpenCore patcher to make the older Mac's use the latest OS, they run fine, its what I've done on some old ones to get them on Ventura.

I watched the demo, but I'm not really sure what data we would even want to see on it.

We keep our old SIMS VM switched off then boot it up if we get a request. I've been booting it monthly this last year as had lots exam results requests from pupils who left 10 years ago.

Seems to work perfectly for our friend circle group chats, messages come through instantly.

If it's Meta/Facebook I won't use it unless I absolutely need to. I moved from WhatsApp to Signal, and I only use Facebook because thats annoyingly where the members of the car groups seem to have moved to so ended up undeleting my Facebook account a few years ago to access it. So Threads? No way.

We are 1:1 , so long as it is web based or has an iPad App we are good, MDM set single app mode for the exam, devices will be locked to that app.

This is the script I run on boot with JAMF on our IT Lab Mac's to delete the local user profiles. You should be able to adapt to what you need. The code does not put things on new lines correctly when posted, so I've attached a screenshot of it formatted correctly. sudo /usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow PasswordExpirationDays 0Users_Array=( `ls /Users | grep -v Shared | grep -v localadmin` )for user in "${Users_Array[@]}"do if [ "${user}" == "${User_Name}" ]; then echo "skip user ${user} as they are logged on." else dscl . -delete /Users/${user} rm -fR /Users/${user} fidone

JAMF , we manage 2300 iPads and 450 Mac's across our Trust with it, very happy with the product. It's what Apple use themselves too or at least did.

Apple have API's for this, you use the content filter preference in the MDM to integrate your filtering software via the plug-in option.

I've gone back to physical in the last few years, bought a Denon CD player last year for £259 and a Denon Turntable for £329 to add to my AV Receiver which should hopefully last a few decades. I've lost all trust in streaming/digital unless I own it on my own hardware. I have loads of albums which still are not on Spotify or Apple Music, I've seen tracks disappear from albums due to rights no longer being there. So I've ripped all my CDs back into iTunes and sync'd to my iPhone for music on the go. I've also enjoyed going the cities like Manchester with friends and vinyl hunting, loads of vinyl shops now, makes a great social day out. I've been doing the same with DVD's too, having seen things like Little Britain and Come Fly with me disappear off streaming services because it's somehow offensive now, or Monkey Dust which season 2 and 3 were never released on DVD, but were on iTunes for digital download 10 years ago, not any longer, been removed, luckily been able to acquire them.

Thats not how it works, the client be it Mac, Windows or Linux don't see NTFS when accessing a share, they see a Samba. You cannot magically get access to a share you don't have permission to just because you are on a Mac. That only happens when it's misconfigured permissions.

Ran Fortigate's since 2010, don't think I would entertain anything else. They have CPU's designed to perform for the task, unlike some others who just take an x86 off the shelf. The threat management is really good at blocking naughty people outside. They have signatures for active exploted threats, and you can even put signitures on specific services like RDP, you can say if more than 10 login attempts to RDP in less than 30 seconds drop all traffic for 30 days from that IP as they are up to no good. Can also notice port scanning, exploit scanning and put them on the banned IP's too. Pair it with a FortiAnalyzer and you can get some good insights into your traffic. You can occasionally get a buggy OS release, but its easy enough to roll back a revision if that happens. We do now use Lightspeed for our filtering/ safeguard reporting as we needed a solution that filtered the iPads seamlessly with no login off site too.

What do they class as an encrypted USB drive? Bitlocker is no good, as it makes the presumption the other end is running Windows. We don't run Windows on our clients, I know MacOS won't read it without paid third party tools. No idea about ChromeOS or Linux. I have no idea what device the moderator could be using to read the contents. Is zipping them with a password good enough for them?

M1/M2 MacBook. Trackpads on MacBooks are best in class, battery life is amazing on the new M series chip MacBooks, performance is great, Air is fanless so no noisy fans because you have 2 chrome tabs open, even the Pro's you will struggle to get the fans loud. From an ARM perspective , the M1 MacBook Air, almost 3 years old now, can run ARM Windows in a VM faster than the fastest ARM non Apple laptop can run it natively.

Our Music department has a suite of M1 iMacs with 8GB RAM, Music Teacher runs Logic Pro in there no problems.